solecism in English

noun
1
a grammatical mistake in speech or writing.
This year, it seems likely that a number of my fellow countrymen will be spending a good deal of time pedantically pursuing punctuation rules and grumbling at grammatical solecisms .
synonyms:(grammatical) mistakeerrorblunderhowlerblooper
noun

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1. When people say, "I looked it up on Google," they are committing a solecism.

2. An observation of the students will not be academically behind or solecism students.

3. Synonyms for Cacology include solecism, blunder, error, mistake, boob, howler, abuse, barbarism, grammatical mistake and misusage

4. Bloomer - BLOOPER - FAUX PAS - MISSTEP - MISTAKE - SCREW UP 8 letter words PRATFALL - SCREAMER - SOLECISM 12 letter words INDISCRETION - MISSTATEMENT

5. At first, this paper analyses and identifies the solecism on the basis of the recount of The Strategies during the Warring States Period Bibliography.

6. Anyone who does commit the solecism of talking or writing about class in America is assailed at once by a problem of definition.

7. Although considered a solecism by many commentators, Awhile, like several other adverbs of time and place, is often used as the object of a preposition

8. See Solecism.[1913 Webster] " The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of Barbarism." [1913 Webster]

9. Your air was often diffident, and altogether that of one refined by nature, but absolutely unused to society, and a good deal afraid of making herself conspicuous by some solecism or blunder.